Reliability of Using Retinal Vascular Fractal Dimension as a Biomarker in the Diabetic Retinopathy Detection

The retinal fractal dimension (FD) is a measure of vasculature branching pattern complexity. FD has been considered as a potential biomarker for the detection of several diseases like diabetes and hypertension. However, conflicting findings were found in the reported literature regarding the associa...

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Main Authors: Fan Huang, Behdad Dashtbozorg, Jiong Zhang, Erik Bekkers, Samaneh Abbasi-Sureshjani, Tos T. J. M. Berendschot, Bart M. ter Haar Romeny
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Ophthalmology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6259047